CoreTrustSeal is governed by the Standards and Certification Board elected every three years by members of the Assembly of Reviewers. The Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of the CoreTrustSeal certification criteria and processes, and for the final approval of certifications. The Board is committed to ensuring community engagement and inclusion, transparency of processes, and the availability of a certification open to any appropriate data repository.

Past Board Members and Ex-Officio

CoreTrustSeal Board 2021–2024

The term of this Board is from August 1st, 2021 to July 31st, 2024

Directors

  1. Chair—Jonathan Crabtree (Odum Institute Data Archive, USA) – January 2024
  2. Treasurer—Ilona von Stein (Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands) – January, 2022

Members

  1. John Westbrook (Worldwide Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA) – October, 2021
  2. Lisa Johnston (The Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, USA) – March, 2022

CoreTrustSeal Board 2018–2021

The term of this Board ended July 31, 2021

Directors

  1. Chair—Jonas Recker (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)
  2. Vice-chair—Herve L’Hours (UK Data Archive, United Kingdom)
  3. Secretary—Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Finland)
  4. Treasurer—Ingrid Dillo (Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands)

Members

  1. Jonathan Crabtree (Odum Institute Data Archive, USA)
  2. Robert R. Downs (CIESIN-SEDAC, Columbia University, USA)
  3. Wim Hugo (Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands)
  4. Reyna Jenkyns (Ocean Networks Canada, Canada)
  5. Dawei Lin (ImmPort Repository, DAIT-NIAID-NIH, USA)
  6. Mustapha Mokrane (Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands)
  7. Paul Trilsbeek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
  8. John Faundeen (USGS EROS Centre, USA) – June 2019

Ex officio

  • Rorie Edmunds (World Data System) – March 2021
  • Lindsay Callaghan (South African Environmental Observation Network)
  • Ilona von Stein (Data Archiving and Networked Services)